| 1st place | Vespers by Jason Devlin |
| 2nd place (tie) | Beyond by Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti |
| 2nd place (tie) | A New Life by A O Muniz |
| 4th place | Distress by Mike Snyder |
| 5th place | Tough Beans by Sara Dee |
| 6th place | The Colour Pink by Robert Street |
| 7th place | Unforgotten by Quintin Pan |
| 8th place | Snatches by Gregory Weir |
| 9th place | Chancellor by Kevin Venzke |
| 10th place | Internal Vigilance by Simon Christiansen |
| 11th place | Escape to New York by Richard Otter |
| 12th place | Mortality by David Whyld |
| 13th place | History Repeating by Mark Choba and Renee Choba |
| 14th place | Vendetta by James Hall |
| 15th place | Son of a... by C. S. Woodrow |
| 16th place (tie) | Xen: The Contest by Ian Shlasko |
| 16th place (tie) | Gilded by John Evans |
| 18th place (tie) | Mix Tape by Brett Witty |
| 18th place (tie) | Waldo's Pie by Michael Arnaud |
| 20th place | Off the Trolley by Krisztian Kaldi |
| 21st place | Psyche's Lament by John Sichi and Lara Sichi |
| 22nd place | The Plague - Redux by Laurence Moore |
| 23rd place | Sabotage on the Century Cauldron by Thomas de Graaff |
| 24th place | On Optimism by Tim Lane |
| 25th place | Space Horror I by Jerry |
| 26th place | Cheiron by Elisabeth Polli and Sarah Clelland |
| 27th place | Neon Nirvana by Tony Woods |
| 28th place | The Sword of Malice by Anthony Panuccio |
| 29th place | Dreary Lands by Paul Lee |
| 30th place | Hello Sword by Andrea Rezzonico |
| 31st place | Phantom: Caverns of the Killer by Brandon Coker |
| 32nd place | Amissville II by William A. Tilli |
| 33rd place (tie) | FutureGame by Anonymous |
| 33rd place (tie) | Jesus of Nazareth by Paul Allen Panks |
| 35th place | PTBAD6.5: The URL That Didn't Work or Have You Seen the Muffin Man? He Is Quite Large by Jonathan BERMAN |
| 36th place | Ninja II by Paul Allen Panks |
The organizer of the 2005 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was Stephen Granade.